Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:30:44 +0100 (BST) |
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> I recently popped a copy of Linux (2.0.30) on my Compaq Deskpro 2000 at > work and was amazed to see that it incorrectly reported the amount of RAM. > The box contains 32MB, but the kernel only sees 16MB. > > Yes, I know, lilo append="mem=32M". > > But I thought I would let you (the developers) realize this. This isn't an > issue of BIOS & >64MB of RAM (which I see plenty of messages about), it's > something else.
By default compaq's dont tend to report over 16Mb via the normal bios query function. They do some limiting of their own as well. I dont know if its a compatibility thing or what
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